Screw Driver: Stirred Passions, #1

By Madelynne Ellis

Hooking up with my BF and his girlfriend is just looking for trouble.

 

My acting career is balanced on a knife's edge after my ex-girlfriend's damning kiss 'n' tell interview leaves me a laughing stock. No one wants a leading man with a reputation for being bad in bed. Work offers have all dried up, and my agent's about to drop me unless I can turn the tide of public opinion.

 

So, I dive on Seth's proposal for a threesome. Except his lass just happens to be mega-hot pop-sensation, Nixie Owen, my ideal woman. Awkward or what? Plus, it turns out that Seth's not being entirely straight with me. He has his own reason for getting us together, one that's about to upend everything, and cause an entirely different sort of tabloid scandal.

 

One-click now to dive into this sexy spin-off novella from the Stirred Passions series. If menage where the guys get involved is your poison, sup this one right down.

 

Chronologically, Screwdriver falls between Cherry Bomb and Black Velvet, but can also be read as a standalone.

 

"I WANT MOOOORE ❤️" OMG Reads.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Incantatrix Press
• Release date: Aug 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393197485

Madelynne Ellis

Madelynne Ellis is a multi-published British author of erotic romance. Her novels and short stories have been published by a variety of houses both in the UK and US. She is best known for her Regency set novels for pioneering British erotica publisher Black Lace, but also enjoys writing contemporary and paranormal settings. Her aim is to deliver scorching, character-driven stories that enchant, torment and don’t shy from darker aspects of life. Madelynne lives in the UK.

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MADELYNNE ELLIS

Copyright © 2018, 2020 Madelynne Ellis. All Rights Reserved.

Cover Art by Madelynne Ellis

Editing by Kimberly Cannon

First published 2018 as Insta Bomb by Clara Leigh.

This edition published 2022.

This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously, and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or to events or places is coincidental.

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Hooking up with my BF and his girlfriend is just looking for trouble.

My acting career is balanced on a knife's edge after my ex-girlfriend's damning kiss 'n' tell interview leaves me a laughing stock. No one wants a leading man with a reputation for being bad in bed. Work offers have all dried up, and my agent's about to drop me unless I can turn the tide of public opinion.

So, I dive on Seth's proposal for a threesome. Except his lass just happens to be mega-hot pop-sensation, Nixie Owen, my ideal woman. Awkward or what? Plus, it turns out that Seth's not being entirely straight with me. He has his own reason for getting us together, one that's about to upend everything, and cause an entirely different sort of tabloid scandal.

Dive into this sexy spin-off novella from the Stirred Passions series. If menage where the guys get involved is your poison, sup this one right down.

Chronologically, Screwdriver falls between Cherry Bomb and Black Velvet, but can also be read as a standalone.

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Dear Reader

Screw Driver was originally published in 2018 under the title Insta Bomb using the pen name Clara Leigh. Nothing has changed from the original story, which started life as a thank you to my newsletter subscribers.

Enjoy.

Madelynne Ellis

PS. This novella uses British English punctuation and grammar rules.

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Tyler Beauford

She did not!

She didn’t.

Mr Beauford… Tyler, I’m sorry but it’s all over the internet, and a couple of the tabloids have picked it up too.

I close my eyes and press my thumbs into the corners of the sockets. The action fails to release the pressure building behind the lids. This is a disaster. My first adult audience-aimed film goes on general release in twelve days and thanks to my ex-girlfriend’s determination to prove herself an absolute bitch, it’s likely to be my last. I know it’s a dog-eat-dog industry, but I don’t understand why this is happening, and what I did to her to deserve this shit shovelled on me. What the heck does it gain her?

Money, Tyler. It’s all about the cash, my oldest friend and the voice of reason whispers in my ear. Thank God, Seth’s here to cut through the bullshit and give me his honest gut opinions on the subject. It’s not about you. I hate to say it, but it was never about you. I doubt she’s given you a second thought throughout the whole of this. Sorry to break it to you, but you were a means to an end, mate.

I reached the same conclusion myself shortly after she left, but it still smarts to hear someone else state it. Truth is, Trisha was never interested in me. Our brief relationship was built entirely on lies. I was simply the means by which she could spy on my co-stars, and ultimately sell their secrets to the tabloids. Well, doing so spectacularly backfired. The only person who emerged with egg on their face following the release of that sexy clip of Dare Wilde and Flicka Caine getting it on together was Trisha, when she got herself fired. Now no decent director is ever going to hire her again. Hence, I guess, why she’s now resorted to selling stories about our relationship.

The PR lady my agent has hired to deal with the matter spreads today’s tabloids out before me. Each headline is more ghastly than the last.

It could be worse. Seth claps a hand upon my shoulder.

He’s right. It could be, but only if I was actually a vile person who routinely abused people.

Try not to take it personally.

Only, it is personal when she alleges that kissing me is on a par with snogging an octopus, and that I ought to receive the Guinness World Record for the shortest hair trigger while in the sack.

We can’t all be wild in bed, the PR lady—Sandra, I think her name is—remarks. Great! So the woman here to mitigate things believes the crap that’s been written. I’m screwed. Utterly screwed.

Her word choice is interesting too. It’s not that I’m simply no good; I’m not wild in the sack, like Dare Wilde. Will I ever get free of that man’s shadow?

So, the plan is that we’ll put out an official statement, she continues, failing